I made the original change that caused this:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/etherboot/etherboot/etherboot-5.3/src/core/Attic/osloader.c?r1=1.5&r2=1.6&diff_format=u
At the time the change was made to fix an issue that was reported to
cause Etherboot to fail to boot some kernels. IIRC, EB failed to
recognize that the kernel download was complete. However, the fix seems
to have broken memtest and FreeBSD.
From my point of view the this patch should be accepted to revert to
the original functionality. I think this may cause the original problem
that I tried to correct to reappear but that may help someone fix the
real problem correctly this time.
Regards
Tim
yhlu wrote:
Great,
Tim, Can you verify that?
YH
On 7/15/05, Steven J. Magnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think this patch fixes the bug.
--- etherboot-5.4.0/src/core/osloader.c.orig 2005-02-15
19:46:56.000000000 -0600
+++ etherboot-5.4.0/src/core/osloader.c 2005-07-15 14:13:39.234375000
-0500
@@ -350,10 +350,11 @@
else {
len -= (skip_sectors << 9) + skip_bytes;
data += (skip_sectors << 9) + skip_bytes;
+ skip_sectors = os_download(data, len, eof);
+ skip_bytes = 0;
+
}
- skip_sectors = os_download(data, len, eof);
- skip_bytes = 0;
-
+
return 1;
}
Steve Magnani
www.digidescorp.com
-----Original Message-----
From: yhlu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:10 AM
To: Steven J. Magnani
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] etherboot with LinuxBIOS
do not use 5.4 at this time, because the memtest can not be loaded by
Etherboot 5.4 correctly.
YH
On 7/14/05, Steven J. Magnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Etherboot 5.4.0 seems to compile with gcc-3.4.3 if, in addition to the
config changes spelled out on the Wiki, you also comment out PXE
support in src/Config:
# Etherboot as a PXE network protocol ROM
#CFLAGS+= -DPXE_IMAGE -DPXE_EXPORT
Seems to run, but I haven't reached a point where I can boot something
over the network yet.
Steve
www.digidescorp.com
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